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this was a city of three million people. the civil war began as a popular uprising against the assad dictatorship which has ruled syria 42 years. one of the most experienced war correspondents covering the civil war in syria is our clarissa ward. she's recently returned from aleppo and joins us now at the broadcast center in new york. clarissa, what can you tell us about who might have been behind these bombings today? >> reporter: well, scott,o far no group has actually claimed responsibility for today's attacks, but there is no doubt that there is an increasing number of extremist groups operating on the ground in syria. they're using the same kind of terrorist tactics that we've seen in iraq and afghanistan and part of the reason for that is this influx of foreign fighters that we've seen into the country. our crew actually spent time in a safe house on the border of turkey that was filled with fighters who had come from northern africa, from other countries, and they said they had come to syria to fight jihad. >> pelley:
this was a city of three million people. the civil war began as a popular uprising against the assad dictatorship which has ruled syria 42 years. one of the most experienced war correspondents covering the civil war in syria is our clarissa ward. she's recently returned from aleppo and joins us now at the broadcast center in new york. clarissa, what can you tell us about who might have been behind these bombings today? >> reporter: well, scott,o far no group has actually claimed...
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. >> they could contaminate the water supply in major cities. >> pelley: david martin on the threat of cyber warfare. did the vice president get it wrong about the deadly attack in libya? >> we weren't told they wanted more security. >> pelley: reports from jan crawford and nancy cordes. los angeles makes space for a spacecraft as "endeavour" lands in its new home. bill whitaker is there. and steve hartman "on the road." they were separated at birth. now they're together till death do they part. >> reporter: so you think this was meant to be? >> absolutely. match made in heaven. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the united states is facing an attack threat equivalent to 9/11, an attack that would be carried out by computer. that was the stark warning from defense secretary leon panetta. he described a cyber pearl harbor in which attackers could take over computers that control the transportation system or a utility with deadly consequences. panetta's dire prediction comes after a massive computer attack on the world's
. >> they could contaminate the water supply in major cities. >> pelley: david martin on the threat of cyber warfare. did the vice president get it wrong about the deadly attack in libya? >> we weren't told they wanted more security. >> pelley: reports from jan crawford and nancy cordes. los angeles makes space for a spacecraft as "endeavour" lands in its new home. bill whitaker is there. and steve hartman "on the road." they were separated at birth....
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shanice whitney, kansas city, missouri, supports the president. jesse vanderkrol from lynville, iowa, is voting for mr. obama and madison boswell of humboldt, iowa, is undecided. how many of you have had an unemployed parent say over the last four years or so? no kidding? tell me about the unemployment in your family. >> being in a single parent household, when that one parent loses their job is very hard. i think i'm going to say probably, oh, about eight months she didn't have a job and it was really hard. >> my dad lost his job when i was a sophomore in high school and the company just went under, bankruptcy, and it was really hard. >> both my parents had lost their jobs before but recently it was my mother and this is what's scary where an engineer and doctor can lose their jobs. >> pelley: so many of you have suffered through this period and the difficulty and the frightening nature of having a parent unemployed and for about half of you it's made you fervent democrats and the other half it's made you fervent republicans. ( laughter ) just go
shanice whitney, kansas city, missouri, supports the president. jesse vanderkrol from lynville, iowa, is voting for mr. obama and madison boswell of humboldt, iowa, is undecided. how many of you have had an unemployed parent say over the last four years or so? no kidding? tell me about the unemployment in your family. >> being in a single parent household, when that one parent loses their job is very hard. i think i'm going to say probably, oh, about eight months she didn't have a job and...
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his mother, cheryl, is on welfare to work from inner city l.a. but don't just look. listen. ♪ [ music ] >> music is beautiful. it's been here with me through all my troubles. music is like my homey, my friend. we can just talk. i mean, it's like, he'll talk and i'll listen. >> reporter: he began his conversation with music at 5, when his mother saw a flyer for free violin lessons. that led them to the harmony project, a program in l.a.'s most troubled neighborhoods, that puts instruments in these hands before the rampant gang culture puts a gun in them. >> it's been difficult for us as a family to can of survive -- to kind of survive sometimes. >> reporter: cheryl came to hollywood seeking fame. after seven children and a failed marriage, all she found was hard times. >> i think we've moved maybe about 28 times. >> reporter: 28 times. >> mm-hm. we've actually slept one time at the office at harmony project. >> reporter: through all of that, he held on to his music. >> this was the one constant thing in life. >> reporter: it's not about being a virtuoso. he finds vi
his mother, cheryl, is on welfare to work from inner city l.a. but don't just look. listen. ♪ [ music ] >> music is beautiful. it's been here with me through all my troubles. music is like my homey, my friend. we can just talk. i mean, it's like, he'll talk and i'll listen. >> reporter: he began his conversation with music at 5, when his mother saw a flyer for free violin lessons. that led them to the harmony project, a program in l.a.'s most troubled neighborhoods, that puts...
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. >> reporter: that's because lake travis also supplies drinking water for cities, including austin, and supports recreation around the lake, like janet kaler's marina. she points out last year, in the middle of the severe drought, early 60% of the water drained wom the lake system, went to the farmers. >> they want things to remain as they always were. that's not the way the world works. >> reporter: her marina is losing business. waterfront homes now sit hundreds of feet away from water. >> there's no question that e ise is a battle going on. look around you at the devastation of these businesses and the cost. it's immediate and now. >> a drought kind of makes you aware of what you don't have. >> reporter: becky motal heads the lower colorado river authority. the agency plans to build new reservoirs to meet demand from a population that cowl double by 2060, but that will take years. >> as the urban areas grow ask they have more of a demand for water, that water's got to come from somewhere. >> reporter: ron gertsen hopes that water will last long enough for his grandson to become a
. >> reporter: that's because lake travis also supplies drinking water for cities, including austin, and supports recreation around the lake, like janet kaler's marina. she points out last year, in the middle of the severe drought, early 60% of the water drained wom the lake system, went to the farmers. >> they want things to remain as they always were. that's not the way the world works. >> reporter: her marina is losing business. waterfront homes now sit hundreds of feet...
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